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Eight Pages OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE BOROUGH OF BERNARDSVILLE AND BERNARDS TOWNSHIP Eight Pages No. 3 BERNARDSVILLE, SOMERSET COUNTY. N. THURSDAY, MARCH 5. 1942 SIX CENTS NEW BRIDGE OfER LACKAWANNA PLANS FOK SK.AK RATIONING AXSEA0T WELL I'MIER WAV LrucUon of a new bridge la road to replace the present Ever the Railroad wi be sought from the rail- 1 the Bernardsville Borough cil' I an alternative, the Council at Its on last Monday night, decided to ha: an emergency bridge over ticks be constructed at a point area.

It was point- estimates of the number of per-! expected to register at each pub-' lie school for sugar rationing, it announced by Mr. Irma Nowell. Deputy State Rationing Admi.iistrat In Trenton. All superintendents of schools have been asked to make an estimate of anticipated registration figures in their respective i.reas. and also to deliver to the local rationing boards a list of the names and addresses of all schools located within the rationing board's area.

This is the first step in the program sugar rationing. The next step will! be the registration of retailers, 30 MEN AND WOMEN TOWNSHIP TO ASK IN FIRST AID COURSE ADDED ROAD FUNDS Scuiier-et Hed Other For HeuNtration. of ompletilii; orner I'rojeH. Thllt men and vvome American Red Cross first aid in-: structor course in the Masonic Teniple under the auspices of the Somerset Hills Chapter. Gordon Es-; terllae nationa fiist aid representative.

is instructing. Tuesday evening, 1 1 canteen volunteers un-j der Mr3 rman served su Be lard t0 Notification by the State Highway Department that the State will pay 13,000, or 9u per cent of total appropriation for the completion of the final link in the Liberty Corner-Martinsville highway which had been in course of construction for a number of years, was received by the Bernards Township Committee at it- meeting Tuesday A. S. ALKXAMlKR SUGtiEfTSB As ('AMMDATi: KOK (ONIiKFSS Archibald S. Alexander uf Bvrnurds- rlila is being mentioned as a rdtic candidate for Representative Congress in Democratic circles here, but without assurance o.i his part that he would be willing to make the run against Dr.

Charles A. Katon of Watchung. Republican incumbent, who will be a candidate for rriiomination i.i the September primaries. Mr. Alexander, a former member ot.

the Bernardsville Boroiigh Council andj number of the Bernards: Township Board of Education, was candidate on the Democratic county ticket in 1940 when he opposed l.blymau Freas Hess for reelection.i He was defeated in that campaign by i votes. He is a graduate of Dl NORCIA GIVEN LIFE SENTENCE of which has number of years, "means by which emergency the thickly populated Ju without going to crossings in tine Ridge or Mine Brook. railroad will be asked to place' at each end of the ge. dearly indicating the capacity; which the span can safely carry. Council renewed its lease for! municipal in Claremont' for three years.

The 1SH2 fwill remain at $1,200 annually payment! in 1943 and 19-44 will' pi eased to yearly. jh Counsel Arthur A. Palmer. kss directed to inform Mary ca i Center street, that the bor- has no fu.ids with which to pay it. -uffered from dogs and that she attempt to obtain ess trom the owners of dogs Bad eitlr ul her ducks.

im llmin Thomas at relief, reported relict innients for February in the! bi for i4 t.innlif- com- at individuals. Mil olli tioai tailing nary. pi tlitS f01 Ti." sported Id Stem, i'hinji Coo Blunn-iiM BoCllia Ke.inelh Turli, ed i prints i map ol th soroagb n- 4 to Turner tor lose o.i the BBC- ot Rowadtep mad mu i was vo: -d to sob-1 bill in this amount th Ot Btl M'I. duelled that the 84 II lurttiient asked toj i highway light la near the residence Marguerite Anderson, wh lifhl be installed I'lea ol onteiulrre to Itoth Imlk Sroreti Hi Ju.lire Allnir. John DiNorcia.

43. former Bernardsville truck driver, was sentenced Monday to life imprisonment by Judge (Jeorge W. Allgatr of the Court of Common Pleas in Somerville for the death by shooting of his wife. Margaret. 42.

and of his brother. Glam- battista, IS. Both murders were committed on the or registration have is expected that rationing will get under way late in March. PATRIOTICPAGFANT 1 nllUUHL I nULHlll the- Chapter in cooperation with Bom- erville-Raritan. Bound Brook and Ma.iville Chapters.

The recruiting for! this course considered a matter of and women between I the ages of 18 and 50 with high school I education are urged to volunteer for. placed at rhurth and a director in the New Yoik completed, will pro-1 Casualtv a highway lacking many of the i Bmh Mrs Alexander are in grades and sharp curves in the exist- Washington this week and could not ing road serving the area. reached tor omnient The Committee directed Township ttB 80 PPtth 'TWO OF ACCENTS for the road department. Township Engineer Kenneth Turner I'aiMsinl (aliacade oi For Freedom. Bund and ra (I'litriliuti-.

OVER THE WEEKEND on man. for an evening old Pluckemin road and on Cher. in the bald' street. Bernardsville. The brother was shot outside the house and fell dead in a neighbor's yard.

Police say DiNorcia went upstairs, obtained his revolver, then returned and invited his brother outside, where the two quarreled in a driveway, police say. DiNorcia whipped out his revolver and shot his brother. Thej he ran into the house and fired two into his wife, who was attempting to escape. MIO Vlihs HAM.K Itil'i I' -IRHITRAKY" 'i amendment to the lis Township zoning -A" property BM aaatflcatton as and unreasonable, and on of the 7 3 Court Justice Heht-r t) a atlac the 1 passed Coats wen afmiast lunicipsUtjr P' mattei caae before CaW in nd Justice Helm daring BJ court. The opin- Treatoa on A capacity audience of nearly 9OIJ raoas last Friday night converted theli admlssionjs into defense taring: BUUnps at a patriotic pafeaQt arrang-, ed and enacted by Bernards High' School Students, The theme of the as tms The Fignt tor Freedom Thr'Hmhon' Ages." depicting a i avak sde of Amei tea's wari tor tree- dom Both thi Ltiga b.tiiii and the lar the let acoi tapai rari ms I i a Ta.

rocal mask department sing 75 roici a supei Ised by Mrs Fraroes AJlao-Allen. blended I I tcta so I special i SBD8 boys' donfeU quart-: George Mater was the Bar- rator. Incidental poems were given by Joss Con.ially. Dorothy Malar, Mary and Arnold Peck Sam Carsweli, impersonating Uacle Sam. sang the finale solo, "Any Bonds prograaa irai lataast- received Girl- ot Home Arts Department under the direction of Mis.

Sara Fin h.v maifn the costaattt The nu constructed by the Hanoal Arts Departmeat In iharge of Qeorge Watson. Mtss Helen Yeagk'. art director, and students of the art were la charee of the scenery. Th-- project is one of several activitk'. being prepared by the Miss Gill's School.

Those taking the course are: Mrs. R. S. Pierrepont. Mrs.

Frederick Bull. Mrs. Malcolm Atkins to remedy drainage conditios at the intersection of his driveway with North Maple avenue. The engineer reported that the Ber- nardsville Borough Board of Health Persons Suffer Injuries In Two Collisions and One Skidding- Auto, mobile Which Hit One man was removed to All Souls' Mrs. hredericK Bull.

Mrs. Malcolm. had instructed njm tQ make Hospital. Morristown and three others Mackay. Mrs.

Charles Dewey. lnf tha iniurt.H PriHm- nitrht when two Katherine and Elizabeth De- Vauloge and Mrs. Alfred Ely. Standard first aid certificates have been sent out to a class taught by Miss Mildred E. Gonyeau in November.

Those receiving certificates Elizabeth S. Belmont. Mrs. David' te, Mrs. James C.

Brady, Frederiea Clucas. Mrs. Suydam Cutting. Elizabeth and Kathrine De- Vauloa-, Mary Pyne Fillfy. Genevieve Fowler.

Cora M. Gabrielsjn. Mrs William V. Griffin. Mrs.

H. B. i Srd, Elizabeth H. Mason. Jane Moseley, Sheila P.

Prentice. Kate Prentice Sdiley, Mrs. Michael Scott, Nancy Bancroft Stillman. Victoria B. CowpertBWaite, Mrs.

C. Maury Jones and Mrs. Lester W. Perrin. It is announced that the following persons have signed up as of the Mounted Troop of the Somerset Hills Chapter of th; American Red Cross: Mrs.

Elizabeth Wadsworth. direc- of the four-acre tract, a portion o'f were injured Friday night, when up in Newcastle. at the the township dumping grounds which i automobiles were in head-on collision I oinis uncle, where it was re- the borough is considering purchasing at Madisonville road and Route 311 nea tnat confessed both killings. The Committee authorized the ac- about 8:30 o'clock. as urn to Somerset County knowledgement of a detailed report I In the hospital with a possible Jd ln nn pr P1 the Board of Education relating fracture and other injuries is Robert Tuttle.

Morristown. who was riding they were love friends and did not care for me any more DiNorcia at once disappeared and was traced to Morristown. where it was said he boarded a train for Xew Vork City. Three days afterward he jail this Floyd Christianson of borough and Detective Joseph Hanlon. where he was soon after into the gi-ading and drainage ot the muw.

VCI local school grounds la one ot the involved cars, according I Cirand Jury and trial was Harold D. Gehling puundkeeper to police. The driver of the car was, morning of this week. reported destruction of four dogs dur-i Edward A. Woods of 41 Lake niui- oer trial ended unexpectedly the month and that he had found Morristown.

who was uninjured, police: morning when the state ac- a home for a fifth dop. He was both inrti, "'u' 0 granted permission to bury dogs on! Riding with Joseph Houser of Perth elU (hai P'ns DiNorcia Giambattista Di the township dumping Amboy. was Miss Mildred Boyesen of mur(i 3 j' of his wife. Margaret. Collection totalling wire Amboy.

Both suffered slight mother, reported by Tax Collector Traemaa aad cOBtnskuta, police say. H. Sptncer. Fred W. Kampmier, Jr.

Bernards police chief. Howard reported relief commitments totulline' took charge, assisttd by Of- irother. Norcia. Followine the opening of court Di- Norcia conferred with his counsel. S.

for four cases involving" eisn't l- ers Russell Gehling and Clarence rt a ort f' Elizabeth, aad former o. r.2 -JJ JUClge individuals. M. Stansbury. First aid was admin- aft( uth Mr A.

Pope, for one hour entered the plea was attacked by Pi Appley who. 1 i m.nt. was pastor ol Bishop Churih. Basking jj brought tlOD of property within the lei area. i'J the original ordmauce.

BCMOd tke trai: known as the Old iiidge school property. Residence A' zone and on three sides by Resi- wiih Somerset County eaittea on Bdncatiati tor Sai Inga. J- tin tJti stiUi t.itaiied $l'nl ing to anoUiicenieiit by High School Principal Ross Andre 74" stamps exchanged' for tickets la Solhnrtng denominations: Ji 1 t-n: Mattps, purchased by mein- Bt Oi S8d KC 11-11; stasapa, sold to high I and 3S5 ten-ctnt stamps, whith to grammar pupils H.i AT M'KI'KISK NIOWEI tor; Miss Crego. James Cribben. Harry Birch.

Roy Rinehart, George Neillands. Miss Clara Vliet. Miss Muriel Cleland. Miss Henrietta Scheiuk. Mrs.

Frank Gerhart. Mrs. Seamon. Mrs. John Warren.

John Warren. Miss Sara Benjamin Avers. Theodore Beal. Powell. Robert Pease.

Edwin Faulkner. Mrs. John D. Currence. Stanford Hendrickson.

George Georgeson and M. Peterson. All members of the troop have completed or are to take a course in first aid. Rivington Pyne. first aid i lull nun is forming clas.ses for standard and advanced first aid Individuals, groups, civilian workers, public utility firemen, policemen and air warden officials are asked to register as soon as possible with Mrs.

Pyne or at Chapter headquarters in Bernardsville. Payments of i'lhu each to the Lib-' istered by Dr. Ruth Earp in the Rob-'; erty Corner and Basking Ridge Fire! toBOB Service Station. No charged Companies, from annual of were preferred. I £.

of his record of good Jl.iOO each, and a $125 payment to' Physician's (ar Inched he 96 On recommendation of Charles coUisLjl las i EaM In senteIuil 'S HiNorcia. Judge Allstedt. Committee chairman John High a SW the Crime had dasla dl and John Parrv were named i Wa DiNor(ia was raping the et- as special police officer's at Somerset 1- derable damage was done to the left treme penalty only through his plea. Hills Airport without compensation I Mde of i ht lege aad fr Dl Pros ul H. Beekman.

from the township. At a meeting of the Township Board man. end of Dr. Smalley's car. No com- was prepared to ask the extreme pen- plaints were entered with Patrolman alty of the law at the opening of the of Health held prior to the Committee' Th maS Vinlng Wh lnT tl led I tri stssicn.

March was designated Clean-Up Day. Robert Gutleber. reg-' Five injured in South Stirliait Five persons DiNorcia was taken Wednesday to were injured early 1 TrenIun State Pris to serve istrar. reported ten deaths Saturday about 1 a. m.

when a ear lm Scd Judge Allgair. nicith at the Veterans' Hospital, and driven by Fred Bauman. 61. of Greg- two marriages. Communicable dis-inry avenue.

Morris Plains, skidded on eases 'tported included two tubercu-j the icy highway on the Plainfield- losis cases the hospital and one Stilling road near the old South Stir- each ot chicken pox and pneumonia, ling school, turned over several times and struck a tree. Other HOLDS MKKTIX. AMI PLANS BREAEFAST islT.tMMi IS THIS AKKA TO RBB (KOSS WAR KlMl At last Thursday evening's the Catholic Young Club pants of the car who were injured in-; ans mmn furthered for their annual dude: Mrs. Donald Bauman. 31.

of breakfast to be held at Gregory avenue. Morris PlaLis, who a Sunday. March JJ at the Approximately has suffered head and back injuries: Mrs. shadv Grove restaurant in Morris- been Wlllard R. Berrell.

17, of the Morris 1 Plains addres. and laceration SEEI OKATORICAL I Plains address, shock and laceration can Red ross War Fund, it WM ct the cneek and Mr and Mrs. nounced today by Mrs. R. Stuyvesant, Giorge Pienpont JW.I road with Mrs Herbert fi.i as chairman the of arrangements, assisted l.v Mrs.

Thom- ot Wat.hung avenue. Bocchiho. Mrs. Lawrence Liddy. bth utind H.

Corbin was given recently in her home in Pine Basking Ridge, by her sisters-in-law. Mrs. Frances E. Thum of Martinsville and Miss Selnia K. Corbin of Plainfield who attended were Mr and Mrs.

J. F. White Otga Havrilak of The local was fixed at when the nation-! North Plainfield. who both sustained Mrs. Betty Kettle.

Mrs. Joseph Ric- injuries. ciardi and the Misses Grace Capice. Warren Township Millington Mary and Emma Marchy. Thursdav, in the American Legion's $65,000,000 and local chap- oratorical' contest to be held in Som- ter, were urged to increase their r- i spevlive subscriptions before the drive alternate' on March erville been designated as in th ing the injured to Muhlenberg pital.

Plainfield. which the court 'f the Residence BfVS as business aiea. TO (OMMITTEI KOK KHITAL SomerviUe. Mi and Mrs Charles Coi-lun and MUs Ruth Corhin of Basking Ririee. nd Mr and Mrs Thum of WISS1X.

FOIM) GAKAI.I KSTATK HERK Names of Men of Bernards in Country's Service WI 111 AM T. If. FOX SPKAhKK AT niSTDfe OK WOMAN'S I.ROI 0b I Bessnier ami Mrs of fiasking Ridge, have I comniittee of lth th-e arrBasfefJsMts Un maaal All-Alumni be Ml ol 1 ot New Jersi Wamtm The aivsaaae win by the l( rhl Mrs. Collection of Waste Materials Here Saturday Woi cttalrau the 1 sy, 'l it, the All Episcopal Nnoay, Mrs Leon I iilL Mil-. WM first aid Rjo, FVeeiaaa Millinn- to km bam in nrl nm- flllllll I "'ON'd th.

re In VI- i 1 i i Long mjurw! la gi The third eotlecHea of waste payer, rrtrissr, scrap metal, tin will made in Ber- Haa uuth j.roi.iM Man 7. tMftaataf in TIMI be bai i flu Bastei kali to to plat fr 1 T.I the Wt toi nun by the trucks rmikinn: under diredion of r. 177, Amenriiii Le Thi- hns bees ill Itlln toil 1 distl it wilh the 11 infikint UM iolmt: area Htmth el raSre Lracki i leni. Arwi il I Boae i trues tfoantati sect in I MOD Etorottgh i M.III it Mrs, Lillian Schroeder, years old. who was a patient at the State Ros-jj pital.

Greystone Park. whiU friends with her band. here on February was found dead in a small garage oil the Upton Pyne estate Monday. County Physician Edgar Flint attributed tUath exposure to cold and privation and said he believed Miv. Si died several days before hei- was found by A.idrew (iei- feai employe on the Pyne estate.

1: was said that Mrs SekraeaVei was permitted to leave the sKKjpjlai anriii Vi-n with ht huslumd eveiy two werks When 'h- fllmnieeiBO hen BBBjn WHS marie for her bui it was iii tiix 1 iJ QctjBSftS vilified the garage tli.ii fnund. Si vue.j were held today iThu.s- IUIVi and burial was to be in i terj in North WABIK A Ml! II HAIKMAN oi WJrTOL IMT Myinii A. Snable has tteen naffied inn in.iii DI Mi- As rom- oi ih- Basking I II- I M.ias CullH- that post AI .1 dl Of llo Mi. li in v'intui-lnm! an ili- Tht News i.i cooperation with Bernards Township Chainnan Charles E. Anftedt.

seeks to prepare as compute a list as possible of young men who reside in Bernards Township serving their country in any branch of the service, either as enlistees or selectees. Such a list may prove invaluable AS tinu if authentic and complete. Parents and relatives of these men can render valuable service in this matter if they will contact Mr. Anstedt. who will prepare the information for publkhiinn later la the News, and will be glad to receive Bf transfers, as they sMSr.

Mr. tclt -plidiif is Milliagton desired ii Pull name home address (strati and num'beri it BOnMs, numlier. Birth date, dale and place uf induMion lir imh oi mill, present rank HIP lo- Dr. William T. R.

Fox of the School of Puiblic and Internationa! Affairs at Princeton University, will be the guest speaker at a meeting to be held Saturday. March 14 at o'clock at the home of Mrs. Helen Simon in Mt. Airy road, Bernardsville Dr. Fox's topic will be.

"Our Latin American Neighbors." Dr. Fox a graduate of Chicago University, where he was given a Ph D. in 1940. He is the author of a number of articles and journals and is now baaiiMllOTIl an of Brazilian society with reference to llle roI.Mijilenres for relations of leadership in Brazil A representative of a Newark de- Iiartnieni stort will Latin- Ajnericaii articles of extreme Invitations have been to ot tht Township League of Women and th ir friends. A Lati.i-Amei nan tea will follow In Kuxs talk UN Al JIMOK WOMIN III il TU.k SOITH was won by Miss Grate Capice.

The monthly meeting date was changed from tht last Thursday of each month to the laM Tuesday. Rtfreshments followed the meetinff and the hostesses were Mrs. Dennerlein. Mrs. Thomas Bocchino.

Mrs. James DeFilippis and the and Elizabeth DeFilippis. MHS. LIB PLANS M'KIX. HAM FOK WAV I Stanford Hendrk-kson has been ap- jKHiited hairman of the committee for the annual Spring daaee ot the Mt.

and Mrs Club, to be held May 1 in the Basking Ridge hool Serving the conimiUee are Mrs. Sleelrnan. Mrs Edward Bailey. Urt AHoe Lytle, Mrs. Carl Ott.

Mrs. Haas Calls way. Mrs Myron A. Snable, Mrs Charles Hamilton. Mrs Helen Sohnle.

Mrs, Jack Twicheii. In. Edgar. Ray Taylor, Harry John Moore. Paul (Krupthak.

Fulloii Mi-Arthur a.id John UMltdrd At a ine.ling at the club Monday night in the Prewbjneriaii Church. i hapel. Rev. Kirk of Passalc. Spoke on the lopii.

"Mr. and VI ti si: viRintT si IWOI.MX. (OI.I.IMOV AH nofin as ol known men is avsilabU- tlrase will bt from tlrue to i I 1 oi i ii'i I mi- ovsi looked a Hi 11 M.i' il.ii.. Iii ol (ii-H( Stenmsaip Lisei -poke TftesAay to B( i n.i: (Isvilli Woman's riiiii mvmben MN! la Hiv reeaarks, reoelve4 with in iiy his bearers, i ioai taBWtel fiJlMMeil l.v an O6SB- i OkM film -SMiith in Hi. I t)H Ml imliMi- I hi.

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